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GParted is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, copying data residing on hard disks and mirroring one partition with another (disk imaging).
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group _id=115843&package_id=173828Just download the ISO image, burn it to a CD, and boot up the target machine using the CD. It's a tiny image -- less than 30MB -- so it'll fit on a business card CD, if you like that sort of thing. GParted will ask a few questions about your language and display preferences.
(NOTE: you should back up any crucial data before making any modifications to the partitions on your drives)
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Hi,
If you did not use "LVM", the best way is
1)backup /opt
2)if you have free space after "/opt", then recreate new "/opt" with larger
size
otherwise backup that partition and creates new partitions.
if you have enough space under "/home" you can move some large files from
/"opt" to "/home"
then create symbolic links.

hi,
just do one thing
1.get a new harddisk or create a new partiiton.
2.create a directory on /mnt/opt
3.mount the harddisk or partition on /mnt/opt
4.copy the files from /opt to /mnt/opt
5.move the /opt directory to /opt_back
6.create softlink for /mnt/opt /opt.
7.reboot the system
in case of any issue any issue you can always mave /opt_back to /opt

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